La Verne Magazine
Vol. 22, No. 2
Spring 1998

"La Verne's Small-Town Businesses"

The elements of earth, wind and fire are molded together
at Gainey Ceramics as a dust laden Jose "Chuy" Guzman dons his
finishing knife on yet another jigger pot. For the past 48 years, workers
have toiled among drying rooms and 2,000-degree F kilns manufacturing ceramic
and terra cotta products at the family owned and operated business.

by J.R. Gonsalves
photography by Ryan Sones

by Louise Glanzrock
photography by Summer Herndon

by J.R. Gonsalves
illustration by Stephanie Lesniak

by Nune Gazdhyan
photography by Ryan Sones

Soft spoken, hard working and relentlessly fulfilled
is Robert Sturrock, owner of Sturrock's Christmas Tree Farm in San Dimas.
Sturrock started the tree farm in 1961 and has made it successful, selling
2,500 trees in 1996 and 700 in 1997.